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Writer of Choi In-hoon. Choi In-hoon of Yonhap News

died at 10:46 on the 23rd. 84. The deceased had been fought at the end of March after being tried at the end of the cancer.
In 1934 (official record in 1936), he was born in Hoeryong, the border town of Tumen River in North Hamgyong Province, before moving to Wonsan after liberation. While I was attending Wonsan High School, I entered the Seoul National University Law School after graduating from Mokpo High School in Vietnam when the war broke out. June 25, but I could not graduate. In 1959, he made his debut with short films "The end of the gray club" and "Raul", and the fate in October of the following year.
"From a political point of view, 1960 was a year for students, but from a fictional point of view, it was a year."
As the little critic Kim Hyun, it was literally a legacy of the revolution of 1919. In this novel, Lee Myung-jun, who is disillusioned on both sides of the political reality of South and North, symbolized by a play secret and a square, is killed in the ocean en route to the third country, the writer accuses the divisional reality of the Korean peninsula While showing an ideological struggle against the two ideals of capitalism and communism.
"If you think that under the old regime that sat on the Asian presuppositions chair and allowed people to listen to Western liberties and not to" live ", they would not be able to deal with any question I feel the reward of the writer who lives in the new republic brought by this brilliant April. "
L & # 39; & # 39; Adventure & # 39; ideological, as the author described in the preface, was dominated by the atmosphere of liberation and liberation from the opening of 4.19. However, the reason why this novel is read to new readers without losing its current meaning so that it reaches about 60 years old will not be tied to the reality of the nation as the confrontation with the division of North and South that still disturbed the writer in 1960. The fact that the artist has made at least seven small and large adaptations since its first publication and the publication of a book (1961) proves that it was aware of its historical and literary historical significance.
Since then, Choi In – hoon has always announced the same novels and plays, and then went to the United States in 1973 to stay there for four years. He returned to Korea in 1977 and was a professor at the Seoul National University of the Arts (now Seoul National University of the Arts) and worked as a professor at the Seoul Arts Center. until his retirement in 2001.

After a long series of feature films in the 1970s and a short "Moon and Boys" released in 1984, he made a long silence in 1994. He made a dramatic "comeback" in 1984 with his two … This novel , confessed to me, was a liberation period of North Korea, the college era, evacuation to the south during the war, the return to the university as a military novelist, It's a physical and mental collapse of the writer who has a sense of self-awareness as an intellectual in the room, a reflection of the intellectual intellectual who sees the old Soviet collapse, and anxiety and the search for a new silence. "It is not surprising that his affection and pride in this work were enough to say that" I do not have many complaints that the writer Choi In-hoon from the end of the 39, history of Korean literature wrote young,
The most important feature of Choi In-Hoon's literature, which culminates in the culmination, is the depth of thought and intellect. Choi In-Hoon did not neglect the intellectual exploration of the divided reality of the homeland and the ideological confrontation that formed its background and the role of intellectuals in such a reality and ideological ground.
Since then, he has been silent for a long time. This short piece is an experimental work that has confused the memories and perspectives of national history and human history through the monologue of the person who is supposed to be the main character of Lee, C & # 39; was the last work that the author published in his life, and he met with reporters in 2008 and said that he had "unpublished manuscripts that would be a volume of a book." The words of the artist, "very avant-garde works that have tried to see where they can go with their horses," are curious about these unpublished novels.
In an interview given to the artist in February 2012, Choi In-hoon said, "It's been a while since I started that I can acquire originality that does not change easily as a & dquo; Art while embracing the story. I think I sang a song, "he said.He also said:" The Second Korean War should never be done. "This is the simple and indigenous philosophy of Korea that precedes any fashion or western philosophy.The conclusion is first, and how researchers and artists do what they do. "From the novel to the" letter of the sea, "the words that & # 39; He wanted to be gathered here.
His wife is Won Young Hee, his son Yoon Gu and his daughter Yoon Kyung. The hospital was installed at the National University Hospital of Seoul and the manuscript was opened on the morning of the 25th as a literary seal (Kim, Byung-ik). (02) 2072-2020.

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